Instructions for viewing DVW talks
1. Before your first viewing, log in to the collaboration room (as guest) to ensure that it works in your browser:
http://connect.rit.edu/dvw
2. You may need to install the Adobe Connect plug-in. If so, follow the instructions when you log in to the collaboration room. You may need
to log in several times in order for the plugin to completely install.
3. Go back to that same link to view the live streaming feeds. (log in as a guest)
4. To play archived talks, click on the links on the DVW page here:
http://ridl.cfd.rit.edu/

Introduction
The Center for Detectors at the Rochester Institute of Technology presents the “Detector Virtual Workshop,” a year-long program dedicated to the advancement of UV/O/IR detectors. The objective of the workshop is to enable future detector capabilities by disseminating knowledge, increasing interdisciplinary opportunities, enhancing interactions between academia, industry, and government, and providing student and professional training opportunities. There will be a particular emphasis on informing the scientific community of potential detector developments in the next ten years for next-generation observing platforms. The workshop will include avenues for brainstorming by all participants, and it will culminate in a report that summarizes promising detector developments. The workshop will start in September, 2011.

An organizing committee will select speakers who can deliver material to support the objective of the workshop, especially those with the ability to present the most promising detector technology developments. A subset of invitations will be reserved specifically for talks that primarily present grand challenges and breakthroughs. The talks will be given twice per month, one at RIT and the other at the speaker’s home institution. The talks will be delivered to audiences around the world through RIT’s Adobe Connect streaming audio/video facility, and they will be recorded and archived for later public use. Talks will be advertised through community newsletters and email exploders.

The objectives of the Detector Virtual Workshop are to:
a) produce a summary report that describes the grand challenges, potential breakthroughs, and the most promising detector technologies for astronomy over the next ten years
b) enable future scientific breakthroughs through better understanding of detectors
c) disseminate knowledge of new detector concepts, existing detector performance, and detector applications
d) increase interdisciplinary opportunities
e) train undergraduate and graduate students
f) connect students with potential future employers
g) increase interactions between academia, industry, and government

To be put on the distribution list for talk announcements or to propose a talk, contact Don Figer (figer@cfd.rit.edu). This workshop is funded by a grant from NSF.